University of North Carolina Ashville Athletics
19 Bulldogs Begin Summer League Action
06.03.2009 | Baseball
ASHEVILLE, N.C.?The college season is over but there is still plenty of college baseball action around the country. UNC Asheville has 19 players playing Summer League baseball in wooden bats leagues from Florida to New England.
Eight Bulldogs are spending the summer in Coastal Plan League which stretches from South Carolina to Virginia. Catlin Carter is playing for the Columbia Blowfish. Grier Harrington, Dan Weller, Taylor Wohlwend, and Carson McLean will each pitch for the Asheboro Copperheads. Justin Schumer and Ryan Dull will be teammates for the Outer Banks Daredevils and Matt Dalby will pitch for the Fayetteville SwampDogs.
Three players each are headed to the Central Plans League and the Southern Collegiate Baseball League. All three players, Dillon Waters, Jeremy Hall, and Austin Graham who are headed to the Central Plans League will be teammates on the Junction City (Kansas) Generals. Members of the SCBL will be closer to home. Derrick Hopkins and Hunter Bacot will pitch for the Asheville Redbirds while Cody Buch will play for the Lake Norman Copperheads.
The remaining five players are off to separate leagues. Jordan Lurie will play for the Albany Dutchmen in the New York Collegiate League. Dillon Tabor will pitch for the North Coast Knights in the Prospect Collegiate League. Danny Baatz heads south to the Florida Collegiate League to play for the Leesburg Lightening and Beau Zinman will play for the Pittsfield American Defenders of the New England Collegiate League.
The wooden bat leagues give players the chance to get more games under their belts as well as to learn the differences in playing with wooden bats which they will use in professional baseball as opposed to the aluminum bats they use during the college season. The Summer League schedules vary slightly but most run from June to the end of July. Playoffs could run into early August allowing players to return to their schools before classes begin.
